Interesting place, I spent a week in Bangkok with a couple of days up north on business last year. Definetly a foreign experience, traffic has to be seen to be believed and most people get their meals from the vendors on the streets. Food and taxis are dirt cheap most other things are a bit exensive. The temples are quite nice, did not get down to the islands but undestand Phi Phi is really beautiful with elephants in the street.

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The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard and the shallow end is much too large